T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.”
Source: Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
“There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60
“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
“There must be something to think about at the end.”
“There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.”
“There must be terrible purpose in it. . .the pain and fear had been terrible. He understood terrible purposes. They drive against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.”
Source: DUNE
“There must be the existence of the Jinns. If they did not exist, their references would not be in the Quran. The logic is- it is not that the existence of the Jinns will make God or the Quran more Glorified. He is ever Glorified with or without creating them. The Jinns exist!”
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“There must be thousands of ways to judge a person but only reason not, to know him better.”
“There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.”
“There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.”
Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.”
“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”
“There must be willingness first, before the strength, in every spiritual assignment”
“There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.”
Source: Difficulties In The Bible
“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917
“There must come a moment when the soul knows: this far, and no further. But we are cursed never to hear that warning until it is too late.’
– attributed to the remembrancer Ignace Karkasy [M31]”
Source: Garro: Knight Of Grey
“There must come a time when the bullets will run out”
“There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.”
Source: Notes on the State of Virgina
“There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.”
“There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust. And the other smells! There was a smell like a cut potato from all the land, raw and cold and white from having the moon on it most of the night. There was a smell like pickles from a bottle and a smell like parsley on the table at home. There was a faint yellow odour like mustard from a jar. There was a smell like carnations from the yard next door. He put down his hand and felt a weed rise up like a child brushing him. His fingers smelled of liquorice. He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.”
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?"
"The other ten percent,” she said.”
Source: City of Bones
“There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.”
“There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.”
“There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.”
“There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.”
“There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering.”
“There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.”
“There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.”
“There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.”
“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”
Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
“There nearly always is a method in madness.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.”
Source: What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians
“There need to be more women supporting women. Not just in fashion, in general.”
“There need to be some absolutes in life.”
Source: Reach Up for the Light
“There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.”
“There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.”
“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.”
“There needs to be a comprehensive study into high altitude astronomy workers to understand why some of them are developing gender issues.”